WSOP Circuit Schedule Released for 2012-2013 Season

The 2012-2013 World Series of Poker Circuit schedule was released this week and it features 20 stops. This is the biggest season of the WSOP Circuit and it will also be the first time that a stop is scheduled outside of the United States.

We’ve posted the full schedule for this season’s WSOP Circuit events below along with some pertinent information players need to know about. The WSOP is one of the biggest poker tournament circuits in the world and is headlined by the WSOP Main Event. The WSOP Main Event is a $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament.

That’s an exhausting list of event for the 2012-13 WSOP Circuit season. There are plenty of events to play in across the country in many of the biggest casinos in the USA. This year also marks a new expansion for the WSOP Circuit, as the tour will be crossing the border into Canada for the 1st time. The 5th stop this season on the list above will be hosted at the River Rock in Vancouver.

I know quite a few Canadians that plan on attending the tournament this year and it should draw good numbers. This year there has been a small change to the National Championship. This year the tournament has been bumped up to May and will be held at Harrah’s New Orleans right after the final stop of the season, which is also hosted at the Harrah’s in New Orleans.

How to Qualify for the 2012-13 WSOP Circuit National Championship

Players that win one of the $1600 main events this season will automatically win a seat in the National Championship.

Players that win the “Official Ring Events Leaderboard” at each stop this season will also win a seat.

The top 60 players on the overall points leaderboard for the entire season also qualify for a seat.

A total of 100 players will win a seat into the National Championship tournament. If some of the T60 players won a seat through one of the other qualifying methods then the remaining seats will go to the highest ranked players after the T60.

Kevin has been in the poker world for over 10 years. He started out playing online poker and then transitioned to live cash games. During that time he traveled around the US in search of high stake ring games. Soon after Black Friday, Kevin transitioned into poker news journalism and is now the Editor-in-Chief of PokerEagles.com.